Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Trump’s Trip to Israel: No Exclusivity and
No U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem

By Julio
Severo

President Donald Trump would lose his credibility
if he did not keep his promise to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, an
Israeli government official told CBN News before Trump’s visit.

On the campaign trail, Trump promised to
move the embassy to Jerusalem and, by the urgency of his promise, his
evangelical constituents, whose vote was vital for his election, expected him
to fulfill his promise as soon as he was inaugurated.

They were hopeful that he
would appoint Mike Huckabee, a former governor and Baptist minister, as the
U.S. ambassador to Israel to help move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. But this
never happened.

Months went by and Trump’s evangelical
voters expected him to make a surprise in his Israel trip and announce the
embassy’s move. Again, this never happened.

“I sincerely believe, that after the
president, on more than one occasion, committed to moving America’s embassy
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, if he doesn’t do that, I think he’ll actually lose
credibility,” Michael Oren, Israel’s Deputy Minister for Diplomacy, told CBN
Founder Pat Robertson in an exclusive interview before Trump’s trip to Israel.

“People respect those who stand by their
words even if their words can be controversial,” he said.

Trump’s promises were left unfulfilled
because he had a top priority: Saudi Arabia. His first international trip was
to the Middle East. But the first nation he visited was not Israel. It was
Saudi Arabia, which provided most terrorists responsible for the 9/11 Islamic
attack.

If Trump understood how God loves the
first things offered to Him, he would have made his first trip to Israel. But
he chose to offer the first things to Saudi Arabia, which is the main sponsor
of the global Islamic terrorism.

Trump’s
visit to Saudi Arabia produced an
immediate massive deal of US$ 110 billion
in military equipment representing the “largest single arms deal in U.S.
history.” Trump also signed an
extraordinary deal worth a total of US$ 350 billion in military equipment over
ten years. He said, “That was a tremendous day. Tremendous investments in the
United States. Hundreds of billions of dollars of investments into the United
States and jobs, jobs, jobs.”

After the massive deal, Israel’s Defense
Minister Avigdor Lieberman said, “I’m not at peace with the arms race in the
Middle East. Weapons sales in the region have reached $215 billion and this is
no small sum… The huge Saudi purchase and the arms race don’t sit with me
well.”

While
Saudi Arabia has been heavily armed by Trump, the United States promised to
increase its aid in military equipment to Israel to just $3.8 billion, as of
2019, an amount vastly inferior to what the Saudis receive in U.S. military
equipment. In comparison to what the Saudis receive, Israel receives mere
military alms.

If a war breaks between Israel and the
Saudi Islamic dictatorship, only God can help Israel, because Israelis are
formidably outnumbered by the Saudis, who have abundant American weapons.

Probably, Trump did not move his embassy
to Jerusalem to please his Saudi client. In the 1940s, President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt promised to the Saudi dictator that as long as he was
president, the United States would never recognize a Jewish state. God had to
remove Roosevelt for Israel to be formally recognized by the U.S. government.

Because of Saudi Arabia, Roosevelt
did not want the modern State of Israel be born, and God worked against
him. Apparently, because of Saudi Arabia, Trump is hesitant to fulfill his
promise about Jerusalem. He is hesitant to put Israel’s
God in the first place. But in a way or another, God will again work against the
U.S. government and its presidents who refuse to put Israel’s God in the first
place.

Even Trump’s visit to Israel was not
exclusive. He made a point of visiting at the same time the Palestinian leader,
after he had already increased
his funding of the Palestinian Authority.

Conservative President Ronald Reagan made
a point to avoid meeting Palestinian leaders in his 8-year administration,
because he saw them as terrorists. After over thirty years, what has changed?
The same Palestinian leader met by Trump has an administration notorious for
paying families of suicide bombers against Israel. Reagan would never meet
these terrorists. He would never give funds to the Palestinian Authority. Trump
has done it.

Adding insult to injury, Trump met the
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, a city traditionally owned by the
Jews, but today occupied by Palestinians. By meeting Abbas there, Trump
recognized the Palestinian occupation, which is a huge insult to Jews and even
Christians. Trump has ratified the insult.

Trump shook hands with a string of
Palestinian authorities, including Islamic leaders, and he saluted two
Palestinian military officers.

The U.S. Army Officer’s Guide says, “It is
customary to salute officers of friendly foreign nations when recognized as
such” — meaning Trump’s salutes would suggest the Palestinian Authority is a
“friendly foreign nation.”

Is there a U.S.-Israeli friendship? Yes,
but no exclusivity and first place. Do exclusivity and first place belong to
Saudi Arabia? Apparently so.

Saudi Arabia has been armed to the teeth
by the U.S. government, under Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and now Trump. Who can
assure that someday Islamic Saudi Arabia, which bans Jews and the Bible in its
territory, will not attack Israel?